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Sorry, not to be rude , but I just wanted to add my two cents. To be widely read is not the samething as to be well read. The ancient Greeks had a term , that we still use, in a slightly different sense, for the widely read but not well read of all ages: sophmores.
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." -- Francis Bacon
If you want to be well read you will spend most of your time on the books that are to be chewed and digested i.e. analytically or syntopically read --which are major undertakings that take alot of you.
No offense, intended, for the Grand Mouse, and not to be a hypocrite for I have 207 non-fiction books , on my device. It is more of a comfort thing, though, as I know they are there if I need them but if I am honest with myself analytically or syntopically reading them all is neither feasible nor desirable ( especially, when taking into account all my dead tree books too).There seems to be a certain futility in having too many books.
Just some food for thought.
Last edited by KevinBurke; 03-09-2017 at 05:34 AM.
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